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Photograph of Danville station
Photograph by Sanfranman59, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Danville Southern Pacific Railroad Depot

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1896.

From the record

“The Danville Southern Pacific Train Depot in Danville, California is located at 205 Railroad Ave. and W Prospect Ave. It was built in 1891 on land donated by John Hartz which was erected when the Martinez line was extended south to San Ramon.”

Wikipedia article Danville station (California), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 49 National Register listings published here for Contra Costa County · listed in 1994 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 355 Railroad Ave., Danville, 94526
  • When was it listed? August 1994
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Central Contra Costa
  • National Register reference number. 94000860 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

147 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 147 fires within 5 miles of Danville Southern Pacific Railroad Depot between 1992 and 2020, burning about 493 acres in total. None started naturally. 10 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined69
Equipment and vehicle use45
Arson/incendiarism10
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Smoking5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Debris and open burning4
Recreation and ceremony2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSanta Clara Unitnot named
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSanta Clara Unitnot named
7 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
6 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSanta Clara UnitALCO #10
6 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSanta Clara UnitDEER MEADOW
5 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution9.0 acresSanta Clara UnitBOLLINGER
29 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSanta Clara Unitnot named
26 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named

Every fire recorded in Contra Costa County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Danville Southern Pacific Railroad Depot: 3 occurrences, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Limestone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Copper. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Arroyo Del Cerro ProspectsAsbestosOccurrence
Mclaughlin Lithograph-Stone QuarryLimestone, GeneralOccurrenceSedimentary
Mclaughlinlithograph-StonequarryLimestone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Mount ZionCopper, Gold, SilverPast Producer

Every working recorded in Contra Costa County

Storms near this property

3 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Danville, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2018 and 2024: 1 hail, 1 debris flow, 1 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2024FloodDanville-Slow lane starting to collapse with a crack approximately 10 feet long at the offramp from southbound Interstate 680 to El Pintado Road.
January 2019Debris FlowDanville-Mud flow along hillside at Bollinger Canyon Rd just west of Bear Tree Road crossing westbound lanes.
March 2018HailDanville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Contra Costa County

Maps showing this location

9 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Eugene O'Neill National Historic Site1.6 miles1978
Tao House1.7 miles1971
Old Borges Ranch4.9 miles1981
Robert Stanley Sr. Dollar House4.9 miles2013
Forest Home Farms6.4 miles2002
Shadelands Ranch House7.4 miles1985

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 94000860 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Contra Costa CountyAll 49 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
  • Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
  • Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.